Heinrich Carlsohn

Ernst Richard Heinrich Carlsohn (born February 7, 1899 in Leipzig , † October 20, 1958 in Waldbröl ) was a German chemist .

Life

From 1917 to 1920 Carlsohn studied chemistry at the University of Leipzig . From 1917 to 1918 he participated in the First World War in part and was from 1919 to 1920 member of the time volunteers - regiment Leipzig . From 1921 to 1923 he was assistant to the inorganic department, a student of Prof. Arthur Hantzsch and from 1923 to 1924 his private assistant. In 1924 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. in chemistry at the University of Leipzig with the dissertation on the constitution of metal halides from the chemical point of view. [II.] About the influence of the solvent on the light absorption of real salts and about the existence of mixed solvates . From 1924 to 1930 he was assistant to the organic department of the Chemical Institute, from 1930 to 1932 teaching assistant to the inorganic department. In 1932 the habilitation in chemistry followed in Leipzig with the text About a new class of compounds of positive monovalent iodine . The private lecturer in chemistry taught in Leipzig from 1932 to 1938 and was associate there from 1938 to 1939. Professor of Chemistry and from 1939 to 1945 full Professor of Chemistry at the University of Leipzig. During the Second World War he served as an artillery officer and was in charge of air defense.

Carlsohn was a member of the Reich Association of German Officers and Soldiers Association . He was a member of the NSDAP since 1933, of the NSBO from 1933 to 1934, of the Reichs Luftschutzbund since 1933, from 1933 to 1936 specialist consultant for chemistry in the Leipzig district group of the RLB, member of the NSV since 1934, in the NS teachers' association from 1933 to 1935, in the NS -Dozentenbund since 1935, the NS-Bund Deutscher Technik since 1936, in the Reichskolonialbund since 1937. In November 1933 he was one of the signatories of the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state at German universities and colleges .

After the end of the war he was evacuated to Weilburg (Lahn) in 1945 by the US Army withdrawing from Leipzig and later worked for companies in the chemical industry .

Publications (selection)

• (with F. Werner): Reactivity of solid thiosulphates with iodine , o. O. 1931.
• About a new class of compounds of positive monovalent iodine , Leipzig 1932.
• (Ed.): Chemistry and Technology of the Present , Leipzig 1939.
• (Mitarb.): Handbuch der Inorganischen Chemie , 4 vols., Ed. v. Richard Abegg , Friedrich Auerbach, Ivan Koppel, Leipzig 1939.
• (Staff): The basics of air protection , Leipzig 1942. (Ed. By J. Meyer )

Web links

• Heinrich Carlsohn in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig